Australia backs call for investigation into Chinese organ harvesting
Canadian human rights activist David Kilgour, and human rights campaigner David Matas produced a report backing up extraordinary claims by the Falun Gong spiritual movement that more than 4000 of their followers have been murdered and their organs removed inside a hospital in northern China, to be used for lucrative organ transplant operations.
Mr Kilgour met with Australian MPs in Parliament House, to push for an independent investigation.
The Australian Government has confirmed that officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have asked the Chinese government to allow an independent investigation into claims of mass organ harvesting in China. [Video podcasts available.]
Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd has backed calls for an independent investigation.
[FLASHBACK: 1943, a 19-year-old Auschwitz survivor described the horrors happening inside the concentration camp where an estimated 1.5 million people of various races, but mostly Jews, were murdered by Nazi Germany. His account, and those of many others after the liberation, was of crimes of such depravity and on such a scale that it was far beyond human comprehension. In fact many, many people said at the time, "this can't be happening".]
1 comment:
First of all thank you for blogging this. I have been following this news since March. I researched this matter after being given a flyer in Chinatown - and I have found many things wrong with this allegation.
In my humble opinion Falun Gong's actions not only discredited their own cause, they also unnecessarily detracted from honest examination of China's human rights record.
FLG's nefarious indictment muddles the rational discussion of issues such as China's legal reform, and Chinese society's moral and ethical standards on dignity and treatment of the condemned, or even death penalty crossing the cultural divide.
In that spirit, I would like to bring to your attention some contrarian facts surrounding Falun Gong's recent media activity:
(all citations are at the end)
- Mr. Mike Stekeetee of The Australian had reported in April US congressional investigation finding the allegation a gross exaggeration. An US Congressional Executive Committee on China (CECC) brief subsquently commented on veracity of Falun Gong's claim of genocide.
- US State Department investigated and found the allegation not credible.
- Harry Wu, directory of Laogai Research Foundation in DC, investigated the allegation and found the witness unreliable
- Melbourn Australia-based dissident Mr. Zhang HeTse of China Aid Online (?) has come forward and supported Harry Wu's finding, while pointing out FLG's phone call evidence is fake.
- The hospital Falun Gong accused in reality is a joint venture with a company affaliated with the Malaysian government. Malay officials have documented prior year visit, and the facility has been open to public for years.
- Mr. David Kilgour, author of a Canadian FLG report and a long time prosecutor, ignored obvious misrepresentation of evidence in his own report that used autopsy photo as evidence or organ harvesting.
Specifically, Kilgour report Appendix 12, Case 1, involving Mr. Wang Bin. Even according to Falun Gong's own evidence, an autopsy was performed as part of Mr. Wang's murder investigation held by local authority.
However, Kilgour report ignored the misrepresentation and recoreded it as evidence of organ removal, ommitting the fact organ removal by medical examiner during autopsy is routine.
In reality the photo proves the opposit is true.
- Mr. Kilgour can not divorce himself from the fact his report is sponsored by a Falun Gong group in Washington DC that is evidentely political.
In conclusion, while China's human rights record should be examined, writing allegory of "Schindler's List" is not the way.
If we in the west can not be precise with our accusation, only resort of nefarious political indictment and sensational fabrication. Why should anyone take what we say seriousely?
Sincerely,
Charles Liu
Seattle, WA
References:
- US State Department Investigation:
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=April&x=20060416141157uhyggep0.5443231&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html
- Translation of Harry Wu's open letter regarding his investigation of Falun Gong's accusation:
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060806_1.htm
- Comment by Mr. Zhang Hetse on Harry Wu's open letter (untranslated):
http://www.observechina.net/info/artshow.asp?ID=40224
- Congressional Executive Committee on China brief commented on the reliability of the Kilgour report:
http://exilyn.blogspot.com/2006/08/latest-and-last-report-for-senator.html
- Malaysian government document on Sujiatun hospital visit:
http://crc.gov.my/clinicalTrial/documents/Proposal/TCM_Stroke%20TrialProtocol%20synopsis.pdf
- Kilgour Report, Appendix 12 Case 1, Mr. Wang Bin from a 2000 FAlun Gong article:
http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2000/11/16/6164.html
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